Embracing Our Future Through Growth,
Humanism, & Innovative Research
VIEW THE YEAR IN REVIEW 2022-2023
FEATURED STORIES
Redesigning for Faculty Success
The pandemic challenged our clinical faculty with exhausting workloads and depleted resources. Leadership recognized early on the acute need to find better ways to support our clinicians. As a result, we aimed to create a new internal model that would deliver on all aspects of our mission.
The Road to Match Day
Each year on the third Friday of March, there is an excitement that fills the air throughout the department. Faculty and residents buzz while gathering around TVs and in conference rooms, logging in to watch UAB’s live feed of Match Day. This celebration is the culmination of months of work, countless hours of interviews, and a team that is devoted to recruiting the best of the best each year.
Growing Research in Chronic Pain
The Division of Molecular and Translational Biomedicine aims to “develop highly innovative research programs spanning from the bench to the bedside,” and this was fulfilled in 2022 when the department welcomed Lingyong Li, Ph.D., to the UAB family.
Improving Care Team Culture
“We strive to optimize the perioperative care of our patients by building and promoting an inclusive, respectful, and fulfilling anesthesia care team.”
Less than five years ago when the Anesthesia Care Team Optimization Committee (ACTOC) was formed, this mission may have seemed lofty. Now with a diligent, compassionate group of anesthesia faculty, residents, and certified nurse anesthetists, the mission is being acted upon and tangible changes are being made to improve our teams as well as our patients’ care.
Less than five years ago when the Anesthesia Care Team Optimization Committee (ACTOC) was formed, this mission may have seemed lofty. Now with a diligent, compassionate group of anesthesia faculty, residents, and certified nurse anesthetists, the mission is being acted upon and tangible changes are being made to improve our teams as well as our patients’ care.